Other:
Workshops:
︎︎︎ Ceramics for the Electric Garden
︎︎︎ Phototropic Robots
︎︎︎ Build your crazy symbiocene
︎︎︎ Bodies within Bodies
︎︎︎ Gardening as Electricity Making
Performances:
Workshops:
︎︎︎ Ceramics for the Electric Garden
︎︎︎ Phototropic Robots
︎︎︎ Build your crazy symbiocene
︎︎︎ Bodies within Bodies
︎︎︎ Gardening as Electricity Making
Performances:
Ceramics workshop for Electric Garden (2023 ~)
A workshop making ceramic vessels for the Electric Garden.
In the Electric Garden, which is a garden full of containers with mud and electrodes that make electricity, the mud container is an essential infrastructure for the functioning of the energy harvesting system and also is a home for the bacteria that make the electricity.
This workshop is for re-thinking human made infrastructures that are embedded in the garden, by re-designing and hand-building ceramic vessels, that are not only containers of mud but also can be habitat to many different micro-ecosystems. The structure of the vessels are therefore more like a land-reef. They have patterns, many niches where small organisms can inhabit (such as mosses, insects etc,) and pores.
This workshop is still in its early phase, where it can develop into having a speculative aspect. Through making these ceramic sculptures, we imagine fictional civilisations who have cultures of ‘fermenting electricity.’ What kind of cultural practices, rituals, cosmologies, and artefacts would this people have? How would their culture of fermenting electricity influence their way of valuing and consuming electricity?
A workshop making ceramic vessels for the Electric Garden.
In the Electric Garden, which is a garden full of containers with mud and electrodes that make electricity, the mud container is an essential infrastructure for the functioning of the energy harvesting system and also is a home for the bacteria that make the electricity.
This workshop is for re-thinking human made infrastructures that are embedded in the garden, by re-designing and hand-building ceramic vessels, that are not only containers of mud but also can be habitat to many different micro-ecosystems. The structure of the vessels are therefore more like a land-reef. They have patterns, many niches where small organisms can inhabit (such as mosses, insects etc,) and pores.
This workshop is still in its early phase, where it can develop into having a speculative aspect. Through making these ceramic sculptures, we imagine fictional civilisations who have cultures of ‘fermenting electricity.’ What kind of cultural practices, rituals, cosmologies, and artefacts would this people have? How would their culture of fermenting electricity influence their way of valuing and consuming electricity?
︎Workshop with the team of Creative Coding Utrecht, in October. This was the first workshop.
We first went on a tour through the garden at the Hof van Cartesius, with the gardener & ecologist Kenny. Kenny told us many stories of how the permaculture garden was created, what kind of creatures inhabit it, and what small ecosystems are present at different places in the garden.
Afterwards, we came inside to make the ceramic vessels, as microbial fuel cell containers but also as a home to more diverse species that might inhabit the outer structures of these ceramics.
︎The pieces were later shown at the exhibition GROUND in November, among the mud cells from the Electric Garden installation.